Bart Couvreur (couf & derivatives)

Goal statement

Giving contributors the chance to do what they want to do and creating the opportunities to do so

Past Work Summary

Almost 2 years being involved in the docs project leads to this:

Having a good understanding of almost all processes within the docs project and the Fedora project

One of the initiators of the L10N and docs integration or synergy (whatever you prefer)

Trying to lead the AG effort

Coordinated F6 DUG release with JohnBabich

And a lot of other stuff

Future Work

Get the AG out of the door

Making our docs site (docs.fp.o) yet better

Researching the we-have-wanted-this-for-so-long knowledge base

Concentrate on the project structures and processes to make them easier to understand

Jared Smith (jsmith)

Up until this point, I haven't contributed directly to the Fedora Documentation Project... mostly just lurked on the IRC channel. Should I be elected, I'll step up to the plate and help out.

Goal Statement

I care passionately about documentation. I understand that it's difficult to get new people to help write documentation, so my goal is to get our documentation infrastructure to a point where it makes it very easy for new contributors to get started.

Past Work Summary

None of my past documentation work has been directly related to Fedora documentation, but I'm one of the authors of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony (O'Reilly Media). It was written in DocBook, so I'd like to think I have some experience in that arena. I've also worked on some DocBook infrastructure for my current employer.

I've also worked in community relations and training, so I feel I'm a strong communicator.

Future Work

The things I plan on working on include:

Adding more detail to the current set of documentation

Working on the docs infrastructure

Push for the much-talked-about Plone system (or something similar)

Generally hanging out in IRC and helping as needed

John Babich (jmbabich)

View my wiki page here: JohnBabich

My IRC nick is jmbuser.

Goal Statement

I am trying to promote Fedora Linux by

contributing high-quality writing to the Fedora documentation project

advancing the effort to write, edit and publish FOSS docs the FOSS way

advocating the use of open source and open standards throughout the ICT community

serving as a resource (AKA "doing grunt work") for the entire Fedora Project team

Future Work

Look at ways to improve the number of contributors to the docs project

Help improve the necessary docs that need to be updated such as the DuG

Try to look for ways that other areas can contribute to the overall improvement of documents produced

Look at building bridges between the projects to streamline processes

Vladimir Kosovac (vnk)

My wiki page is VladimirKosovac.

Goal Statement

I want to help Fedora Project achieve the status of the best Linux distribution with the best technical and end-user documentation. I want to look at the various ways of attracting new contributors to the Documentation Project and push really hard for the completion of the Administration Guide before Fedora 9 is released.

Past Work Summary

I have been involved with the Docs Project for the past year, mostly as a writer of the several sections of the Administration Guide draft.

Future Work

Help with the effort to make joining the project easy process for new contributors